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Hey Space Placers! Interesting article  about China and the new space race. I wrote about this in March of last year  . While the US contends with the longest federal government shutdown in the Nation's history - NASA is essentially shut down - China is exploring the far side of the Moon. The American people had better wake up and demand their elected members of Congress to their jobs  instead of putting politics over country. China's Communist Party is focused, financially supported and moving ahead in space. America needs to do the same. Sky Guy in VA

Hey Space Placers! John Glenn - Marine Colonel, Distinguished Naval Aviator,  Mercury 7 and Space Shuttle Astronaut, U.S. Senator - a true American hero and one of the finest human beings to ever walk and orbit the Earth, now belongs to the ages with his passing today at the age of 95  https://www.nasa.gov/johnglenn . With his death an era comes to an earthly end. An era when seven white military men who were proven warriors and pilots of the sky were chosen by the fledgling National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to be America’s Mercury 7 astronauts https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/program-toc.html     . These 7 would go up against the Communist Cosmonauts in the declared Space Race - America and democracy against the Communists of the U.S.S.R in competition for the hearts and minds of the earthbound via the new high ground of space. It was a different time for the world and humanity, much simpler and everything was in bla...